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Thanks for the comprehensive reply. Briefly I would say that we care about availability more than performance, though both are important. We're running somewh

Thanks for the comprehensive reply. Briefly I would say that we care about availability more than performance, though both are important. We're running somewhere on the order of 2000 VMs w/ ESX with some bare metal systems running database clusters. We have a separate team that manages the hardware infrastructure and they have their own monitoring and alerting system. I'm mostly concerned about preventing downtime for the application cluster, alerting the right people via the right means (chat, email, pagerduty) when something does go down, and getting some high resolution graphs for analysis.

dsr_ 10y ago
I still don't know anything much about your systems, but I do know this: find out what your hardware team uses and see if it is right for you, too. (Or find out that they are unhappy with it, and perhaps go in together on a new system.) Benefits: shared expertise. Common language. Propagation of alerts up from hardware and down from services. Better root cause analysis. If you have a good culture, faster resolution time and better understanding.